The collection and analysis of metadata would seem to be the least intrusive and most effective of surveillance techniques in the effort to stem terrorist attacks.
Google and facebook know at least as much about most of us.
or do you believe it would be good for the world if all communication could be infallibly incrypted?
I understood your point. But if an organization is able to down a plane (and I realize its too early to know) it matters very little how they do it. Further, which conventional force has shown itself willing & able to dislodge ISIL from the territory they now hold? Perhaps conventionality is the problem
Do you know something we dont about the willingness of the Kurds or the Iranians or the turks or the Russians to win back territory & hold it with conventional forces?
24 hours later this story looks very different. New York Times and others are reporting that the Russians are looking at a mid-air event unrelated to mechanical malfunction or pilot error.
Thoughts?
Katty Wampus is right. But lets go even further back: the left's love of Nader gave us Bush 2.
Im afraid politics is still the art of the possible and i think Barack Obama is/was and always will be a deeply honorable man and a fantastic president. Not so, a republican congress.
But why dont you, professor, and the indominately perfect Bill Bodden run for pres & vice pres and watch as your vision for a perfect world garners a miniscule fraction of the vote.
Democracy, in this country, wouldnt have you. That, i believe, is the source of your constant complaint.
It really hurts, doesn't it, that Milton Friedman had this right back in 1997.
I think the euro will revert to a deutschmark for eurozone countries willing to compete and cooperate with Germany. France and Italy may even end up outside that currency. The project of a united europe would then be dead. Thats no small thing.
Greece, for its part, does not look to me to be anything but a lost child, yearning for the past. They dont believe in taxes, they retire at mid-life, and they SHOULD privatize their mines.
Portugal, Spain and Ireland drank the kool-aid. They will utterly erupt if greece gets debt relief for their stunting. It will not happen and tsipras knew that when he called the referendum. Poor Tsipras, he hasnt a clue what to do now. His choice is either complete capitulation or leading his people into a new hell.
This wasnt a "youth revolution." It had little or nothing to do with immigration policy or LGBT rights.
But It has demonstrated pretty clearly how a utopian vision can be as dangerous as any ideology.
I dont care much about saving owners of cab medallions (capital) from competition when each and every cab driver (labor) who works for bad wages for the rich cab medallion owner can (and likely will) go work for similarly bad wages at Uber.
Uber is destroying a business that has acted as a cartel for years and you cite it as an example for american workers. I call it "creative waves of economic destruction" and its a goid thing. Uber is a great thing. Think about it. It will enable more and more households to eliminate buying a car. It works so much better than an antiquated taxi system its not even funny.
But its a perfectly logical thing for the french to riot about. Protectionism at every level. And august in the south of france while the germans and the Finns take their wealth.
Also--its just a popular delusion of most commentators that none of these issues is covered in the mainstream media.
You all sound like Sarah Palin.
Have you checked out Bernie on gun control? Enjoy.
So let me get this straight: its "not very realistic" to hope for denser cities & better public transport. But your solution, repeated ad nauseum, is that we should all spend tens of thousands of dollars on a Volt and a solar array.
Can you not understand the financial impossibility of your solution?
Love you on the middle east. On climate change--youve got work to do.
When barack tells me that speculators are responsible for high gasoline prices do I have to thank those same speculators for the lowest natural gas prices in twenty years?
Let's not get stupid: high gas prices -- faster than anything else-- destroy demand.
Why does my beloved Bernie sanders wet himself for low gas prices? Why does my beloved Barack engage in this utter bullshit.
The collection and analysis of metadata would seem to be the least intrusive and most effective of surveillance techniques in the effort to stem terrorist attacks.
Google and facebook know at least as much about most of us.
or do you believe it would be good for the world if all communication could be infallibly incrypted?
Any chance you want to rewrite your post: "Isil is a vast exaggeration: & no, it can't shoot down planes."
Because it seems to me you should.
I understood your point. But if an organization is able to down a plane (and I realize its too early to know) it matters very little how they do it. Further, which conventional force has shown itself willing & able to dislodge ISIL from the territory they now hold? Perhaps conventionality is the problem
Do you know something we dont about the willingness of the Kurds or the Iranians or the turks or the Russians to win back territory & hold it with conventional forces?
24 hours later this story looks very different. New York Times and others are reporting that the Russians are looking at a mid-air event unrelated to mechanical malfunction or pilot error.
Thoughts?
Katty Wampus is right. But lets go even further back: the left's love of Nader gave us Bush 2.
Im afraid politics is still the art of the possible and i think Barack Obama is/was and always will be a deeply honorable man and a fantastic president. Not so, a republican congress.
But why dont you, professor, and the indominately perfect Bill Bodden run for pres & vice pres and watch as your vision for a perfect world garners a miniscule fraction of the vote.
Democracy, in this country, wouldnt have you. That, i believe, is the source of your constant complaint.
So, Che Guevara.
A terrorist, right? But not an Arab terrorist. Or have i chosen the wrong word?
It really hurts, doesn't it, that Milton Friedman had this right back in 1997.
I think the euro will revert to a deutschmark for eurozone countries willing to compete and cooperate with Germany. France and Italy may even end up outside that currency. The project of a united europe would then be dead. Thats no small thing.
Greece, for its part, does not look to me to be anything but a lost child, yearning for the past. They dont believe in taxes, they retire at mid-life, and they SHOULD privatize their mines.
Portugal, Spain and Ireland drank the kool-aid. They will utterly erupt if greece gets debt relief for their stunting. It will not happen and tsipras knew that when he called the referendum. Poor Tsipras, he hasnt a clue what to do now. His choice is either complete capitulation or leading his people into a new hell.
This wasnt a "youth revolution." It had little or nothing to do with immigration policy or LGBT rights.
But It has demonstrated pretty clearly how a utopian vision can be as dangerous as any ideology.
Furthermore, their political
But i fail to see this as
I dont care much about saving owners of cab medallions (capital) from competition when each and every cab driver (labor) who works for bad wages for the rich cab medallion owner can (and likely will) go work for similarly bad wages at Uber.
Uber is destroying a business that has acted as a cartel for years and you cite it as an example for american workers. I call it "creative waves of economic destruction" and its a goid thing. Uber is a great thing. Think about it. It will enable more and more households to eliminate buying a car. It works so much better than an antiquated taxi system its not even funny.
But its a perfectly logical thing for the french to riot about. Protectionism at every level. And august in the south of france while the germans and the Finns take their wealth.
Also--its just a popular delusion of most commentators that none of these issues is covered in the mainstream media.
You all sound like Sarah Palin.
Have you checked out Bernie on gun control? Enjoy.
So let me get this straight: its "not very realistic" to hope for denser cities & better public transport. But your solution, repeated ad nauseum, is that we should all spend tens of thousands of dollars on a Volt and a solar array.
Can you not understand the financial impossibility of your solution?
Love you on the middle east. On climate change--youve got work to do.
When barack tells me that speculators are responsible for high gasoline prices do I have to thank those same speculators for the lowest natural gas prices in twenty years?
Let's not get stupid: high gas prices -- faster than anything else-- destroy demand.
Why does my beloved Bernie sanders wet himself for low gas prices? Why does my beloved Barack engage in this utter bullshit.